L.A.’s Persian Jews struggle with the issue of gay marriage
Opponents see such unions as a threat to faith traditions. At the center of the conflict is a rabbi who announced he will conduct gay marriages.
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The Hesperia Unified School District is adopting policies to support gay and lesbian students after members of a Sultana High campus club alleged they were being harassed and bullied, a legal group said Thursday.
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A jury has rejected a lawsuit brought on behalf of an autistic child who claimed he was bullied and physically abused by a behavioral
After becoming the latest high-profile athlete to announce that he is gay, Darren Young, a professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment, spoke briefly at an anti-bullying assembly Thursday at Samuel Gompers Middle School in South Los Angeles.
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In August 2012, Matthew Heimbach, then a senior at Towson University, formed a “White Student Union.” By April 2013, the first
WSU had made national headlines and another was established at Indiana University. Earlier this
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court unanimously rejected an attempt Wednesday to revive Proposition 8, ending the pending legal challenges over the 2008 ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage.
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With Congress stalled on immigration reform, activists from around California descended Wednesday on Bakersfield to pressure a key Republican lawmaker into acting soon on a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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LOS ANGELES — THE historic ruling by
SAN FRANCISCO — Every weekday starting at dawn and continuing late into the evening, a shiny fleet of unmarked buses rolls through the streets of San Francisco, picking up thousands of young technology workers at dozens of stops and depositing them an hour’s drive south.
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SACRAMENTO — California on Monday became the first state to enshrine certain rights for transgender K-12 students in state law, requiring public schools to allow those students access to whichever restroom and locker room they want.
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